To: zax who wrote (912388 ) 1/6/2016 1:32:26 PM From: bentway Respond to China Fuming Over N. Korea 'H-Bomb Test' newser.com purported hydrogen bomb test and is monitoring the environment along its border with the North near the test site. China plans to summon North Korea's ambassador in Beijing to the Foreign Ministry to lodge a strong protest, spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters at a daily briefing Wednesday. China made a similar protest after the North's last nuclear test in 2013. Wednesday's reported test was performed in defiance of the international community and in contravention of its earlier denuclearization promises, Hua said. "North Korea should stop taking any actions [that] would worsen the situation on the Korean peninsula," she told reporters.BBC reports. Pyongyang, meanwhile, said the test was a complete success that has made the country an advanced nuclear nation. "It is just to have H-bomb as self-defense against the US having numerous and humongous nuclear weapons," a North Korean state broadcast said, per the Guardian . (Here's more on the science of Pyongyang's H-bomb claim .)
